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Wayward Pines
Wayward Pines: Fox psychological thriller (2015-2016, two 10-episode seasons) based on Blake Crouch's Pines trilogy, executive produced by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Matt Dillon as agent Ethan Burke trapped in a mysterious Idaho town.
Wayz Intelligent Manufacturing Technology (中科微至智能制造科技江苏股份有限公司)
Wayz Intelligent Manufacturing Technology (中科微至智能制造科技江苏股份有限公司), branded Wayzim, is a Chinese maker of intelligent parcel sorting equipment founded in 2016 and listed on the Shanghai STAR Market since 2021.
Waza Logone Floodplain
Waza Logone Floodplain (Yaayre/Yaéré), Logone River, Far North Cameroon, Lake Chad Basin: 8,000 km² seasonal floodplain, Ramsar site 1609 (600,000 ha, 2006); degraded by 1979 Maga dam, partly reflooded from 1994, supporting over 100,000 people.
Wazad
Wazad was a king of Egypt's Fourteenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, ruling from Avaris in the eastern Nile Delta; his place in the dynasty is uncertain.
Waze
Waze is a free, community-based GPS navigation app created in Israel and owned by Google since 2013, whose users share real-time traffic and hazard reports to route drivers around delays.
Wazeb of Axum
Wazeb (WʽZB) was a Christian king of the Aksumite Empire, son and successor of Emperor Kaleb, who probably reigned in the first half of the 6th century.
Wazeba
Wazeba of Aksum was a King of Aksum around 340 AD, known almost entirely from his coins, the first to carry a legend in Ge'ez script.
Wazed Ali Choudhury
Wazed Ali Choudhury is an Indian National Congress politician serving as Leader of the Opposition in the Assam Legislative Assembly, a longtime MLA from Salmara South first elected in 1996.
Wazena
Wazena of Aksum was a king of Aksum in the mid-6th century AD, known essentially from his coinage, which bears Ge'ez legends and Christian mottoes and follows Kaleb's issues.
Wazir (वज़ीर) (film)
Wazir (वज़ीर), 2016 Hindi action thriller directed by Bejoy Nambiar, produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Farhan Akhtar; released 8 January 2016, 102 minutes, mixed reviews.
Wazir Agha
Wazir Agha (وزیر آغا), 1922 to 2010, was a Pakistani Urdu poet, critic, and essayist who wrote over 40 books and edited the literary magazine Auraq for decades.
Wazir Ali Khan
Wazir Ali Khan (وزیر علی خان) was Nawab of Awadh for four months from 1797, deposed by the British, and imprisoned until his death in 1817.
Wazir Khan Mosque
Wazir Khan Mosque (مسجد وزیر خان), also Masjid Wazir Khan, is a 1634–1641 Mughal mosque in Lahore's Walled City, built by governor Hakim Ilm-ud-din Ansari under Shah Jahan, famed for kashi-kari glazed tile mosaics, frescos, and an integrated bazaar.
Wazir Khan of Sirhind
Wazir Khan (ਵਜ਼ੀਰ ਖ਼ਾਨ) was the Mughal faujdar of Sirhind in the early 1700s, notorious for ordering the execution of Guru Gobind Singh's two younger sons.
Waziri of Bornu
The Waziri of Bornu was the office of chief minister of the Bornu empire under the al-Kanemi dynasty, exercising strong influence over Bornu's politics until Rabih Fadlallah's 1893 invasion.
Waziristan (وزیرستان)
Waziristan (وزیرستان), mountainous Pakistani region on the Afghan border, named for the Wazir tribe; formerly two FATA agencies, North and South Waziristan, now merged districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Waziristan Campaign (1919–1920)
The Waziristan Campaign of 1919–1920 was a British-Indian punitive expedition against the Mahsud and Wazir tribes of Waziristan, launched after they supported the Afghan invasion of May 1919.
Wazo
Wazo was bishop of Liège from 1042 until his death in 1048, known for his written opinion counseling toleration of heretics rather than the sword.
Wazuh
Wazuh is a free and open source security platform providing unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads, begun in 2015 as a fork of OSSEC.
Wazzaniyya
The Wazzaniyya (الوزانية) is a Shadhili Sufi order founded in Wazzan, northern Morocco, in the mid-seventeenth century by the sharif Mawlay Abdallah al-Sharif al-Wazzani, whose zawiya made the town a center of religious learning and pilgrimage.
WBEZ
WBEZ (91.5 FM), Chicago's NPR member station, founded 1943 by the Chicago Board of Education after 1937 polio radio lessons; charter NPR member, Chicago Public Media-owned, home of This American Life, Serial, Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me.
WBI Energy
WBI Energy is a Bismarck, North Dakota-based interstate natural gas pipeline and storage company, a subsidiary of MDU Resources Group operating about 3,800 miles of pipeline.
WBNS-TV
WBNS-TV, branded 10TV, is a CBS-affiliated television station in Columbus, Ohio. It began broadcasting in 1949, was founded by the Wolfe family, and joined Nexstar Media Group in 2026.
WBSC World Rankings
WBSC World Rankings: official national-team rankings in baseball, softball, and Baseball5 by the World Baseball Softball Confederation, first issued by IBAF in 2009, points-based over a four-year cycle, and used to select Premier12's top 12 teams.
WBUR-FM
WBUR-FM (90.9 FM, Boston) is Boston University's NPR member public radio station, on air since 1950, producer of the national programs On Point and Here & Now, reaching millions weekly.
WBVibration trial
WBVibration (NCT06330311) is a Madrid randomized controlled trial adding whole-body vibration to physiotherapy in 30 children with spastic cerebral palsy; it found no additional benefit over intensive physiotherapy alone.
WC (rapper)
WC (Dub-C), William LaShawn Calhoun Jr., born 1970, is a West Coast rapper from Los Angeles of Low Profile, WC and the Maad Circle, and Westside Connection, and a solo artist since The Shadiest One (1998).
WCK
WCK (Windward Caribbean Kulture) is a Dominican band formed in 1988 in Grand Bay, Dominica, credited with creating bouyon, a genre fusing cadence-lypso, jing ping, and lapo kabwit drumming with soca.
Wcm Partners
Wcm Partners is a series of private-fund vehicles of WCM Investment Management, an SEC-registered equity adviser founded in 1976 and based in Laguna Beach, California.
Wcp Newcold
WCP NewCold is a series of cold-storage-focused private equity funds managed by Westport Capital Partners, a Connecticut real estate firm, built around the automated cold-storage operator NewCold, raising over $1.7 billion since 2015.